Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Plymouth City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,423 approved · 420 refused · 271 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 2021 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
University Of Plymouth Babbage Building 24 James Street Plymouth PL4 6EQ
Received 13 Apr 202296 North Road East Plymouth PL4 6AW
Received 14 Apr 2022Flying Starts Nursery University Of St Mark And St John Plymbridge Lane Plymouth PL6 8BH
Received 14 Apr 20227 Hilldale Road Plymouth PL9 9JY
Received 13 Apr 202219 Reservoir Crescent Plymouth PL9 8NG
Received 14 Apr 202219 Seaton Avenue Plymouth PL4 6QJ
Received 14 Apr 202216 Lisson Grove Plymouth PL4 7DN
Received 14 Apr 2022114 Plymstock Road Plymouth PL9 7PJ
Received 14 Apr 20221 Allerton Walk Plymouth PL6 5RZ
Received 15 Apr 202212 Mills Road Plymouth PL1 4NF
Received 18 Apr 20225 Trevone Gardens Plymouth PL2 3TH
Received 19 Apr 2022Regimental Training Wing Hoe Road Plymouth
Received 19 Apr 2022112 Underlane Plympton Plymouth PL7 1QZ
Received 13 Apr 2022Portland Square Plymouth PL4 8AA
Received 19 Apr 2022Pembroke Street Plymouth PL1 4JX
Received 19 Apr 202216 The Grove Stoke Plymouth PL3 4AL
Received 19 Apr 2022220 Ernesettle Lane Plymouth PL5 2EY
Received 19 Apr 20222 Truro Drive Plymouth PL5 4PB
Received 20 Apr 202213 Nelson Street Plymouth PL4 8ND
Received 20 Apr 20222 Somerset Place Plymouth PL3 4BA
Received 20 Apr 202258 Staddon Lane Plymouth PL9 9SP
Received 20 Apr 20226 Jasmine Gardens Plymouth PL7 2JD
Received 20 Apr 2022The Albemarle Budshead Road Plymouth PL5 4DA
Received 20 Apr 202254 Elford Crescent Plymouth PL7 4BT
Received 20 Apr 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Plymouth City Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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